Tag: jehovah's witnesses

WA’s SB 5375 adds clergy as mandatory child abuse reporters — even for confessions. Survivors await Gov. Ferguson’s signature by May 15.

This week's post includes helping Gray Fire victims, Mayor Nadine Woodward's appearance on stage with Christian nationalists, a Whitworth professor named a 2023 Young Scholar in American Religion and a Jehovah's Witness Regional Convention to be held in Russian.

I agree that in general, classrooms shouldn't be a place to push a particular political ideology or campaign. However, simply being gay in school isn't a political campaign. It's a recognition that a teacher's classroom is a safe place for gay kids. If that's political to you, even if the teacher never once mentions a political candidate, you've probably got a problem with the existence of the gay kids.

Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and why would the Russian, or any, government consider them to be a threat?